FRENCH INTERDISCIPLINARY GROUP

The early modern period is a joint area of research for Northwestern and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon). Visitors from Lyon have enjoyed this shared focus of study at Northwestern by joining, for example, the Early Modern Colloquium’s regular programming or participating in a special workshop such as "Tricks of Singularity: Poems and Comparative Poetics in Renaissance Europe," held at the Newberry Library in 2015 with Chicagoland Early Modernists.

Northwestern graduate students and faculty members who have visited the ENS de Lyon used resources such as:

•  Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM), which is concerned with interdisciplinary approaches to ideas and representations from the 16th-20th centuries
• CIHAM, which studies the history, archaeology and literature of medieval Christianity and Islam
• Triangle, which specializes in politics and political thought

Scholars

Conferences and workshops

• Tricks of Singularity: Poems and Comparative Poetics in Renaissance Europe, October 22, 2015, Northwestern and the Newberry Library
• Life and Community ,ENS de Lyon-Northwestern joint conference, April 2013, Northwestern

Talks

Makram Abbès (ENS de Lyon)

• Averroes’ Commentaries on Plato and Aristotle, May 15, 2015, Northwestern
• Maximes, poésies et récits: rhétorique et politique dans les textes arabes des Miroirs des princes, May 11, 2015, Northwestern

Michel Jourde (ENS de Lyon)

• Lyon, une capitale du livre à la Renaissance, October 29, 2015, Northwestern
• Animal Voices and Literature in France in the 16th Century, October 20, 2015, Northwestern

Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (ENS de Lyon)

• Textual Crossings on the Renaissance Stage: English Travel Narratives Shakespeare's Poetic Geography, April 18, 2016, Northwestern
• In the Shadow of Shakespeare: 400 years, April 7, 2016, Northwestern

Contact

For questions about this research group, please contact William West.